Citron, Michelle2003 Rockefeller Fellowship Nomineehttp://hdl.handle.net/1813/38342015-08-02T20:40:56Z2015-08-02T20:40:56ZRockefeller New Media Foundation ProposalCitron, Michellehttp://hdl.handle.net/1813/38352015-07-07T23:14:53Z2006-11-15T16:33:15ZRockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal
Citron, Michelle
Mixed Greens is a web-based artwork that uses interactivity to tell a story of the
complexities of identity. It will be a mixed genre piece using documentary, fiction,
sound, and text. Mixed Greens interweaves two identity stories: of my paternal
grandfather and his brothers who, as Irish Jews, lived in a "gray area" between Catholics
and Protestants, and later negotiated a different set of identity issues as immigrants in
Boston; and that of five lesbians, who live at a contemporary edge of assimilation and
difference. Mixed Greens is the third piece in what will eventually be a five-piece/fivecourse
meal that I call Queer Feast: a mosaic of contemporary lesbian culture played
out through its contradictions of class, ethnicity, desire, and the banality of daily
existence. The five pieces/courses consist of: Cocktails & Appetizers (2001), a tale of
lust and love, voyeurism and the performance of gender; Mixed Greens, a meditation on
identity and assimilation; Bread and Butter, a non-linear "memoir" of the twenty-four
year relationship of me and my partner; The Main Dish, a social, historical, and political
narrative of lesbian culture; and As American As Apple Pie (1999), occupying the space
between melodrama and sitcom, a tale of lesbian family life. This feast crosses many
borders - documentary/fiction/melodrama/comedy, memoir/history/myth,
ethnicity/race/class - bringing complexity to the media representation of lesbian life and
culture. It also uses interactivity to explore the paradoxes of narrative itself. I will use
the Rockefeller New Media Fellowship to create Mixed Greens as well as the Queer
Feast web site.
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